Plasma wakefield acceleration of an intense positron beam: correlation between time-resolved and time-integrated energy diagnostics

Author

Blue, B.E. ; Muggli, P. ; Hogan, M.J. ; O´Connell, C.L. ; Clayton, C. ; Decker, F.J. ; Huang, C. ; Iverson, R. ; Marsh, K.A. ; Mori, W.B. ; Walz, D. ; Katsouleas, T.C. ; Siemann, R. ; Joshi, C.

Author_Institution

California Univ., Los Angeles, CA, USA

Volume

3

fYear

2003

fDate

12-16 May 2003

Firstpage

1864

Abstract

The E162 experiment at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center was the first experiment in which a positron beam gained energy in a plasma wakefield accelerator [B. Blue et al., Accepted for Publication in Physical Review Letters.]. A single positron bunch both excited (gave energy to) and witnessed (extracted energy from) the plasma wakefield. The energy dynamics within the single positron bunch were measured in a dispersive section of the beamline with both time-resolved (1 ps streak camera) and time-integrated (CCD camera) diagnostics. This paper will correlate the energy gain and loss measurements from both diagnostics.

Keywords

linear accelerators; particle beam bunching; particle beam diagnostics; particle beam dynamics; wakefield accelerators; E162 experiment; Stanford Linear Accelerator Center; dispersive beamline section; energy dynamics; energy gain measurements; energy loss measurements; intense positron beam; plasma wakefield acceleration; single positron bunch; time-integrated energy diagnostics; time-resolved energy diagnostics; Charge coupled devices; Charge-coupled image sensors; Dispersion; Energy measurement; Linear accelerators; Particle beams; Plasma accelerators; Plasma diagnostics; Plasma measurements; Positrons;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Particle Accelerator Conference, 2003. PAC 2003. Proceedings of the

ISSN

1063-3928

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7738-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PAC.2003.1288701

Filename

1288701